South Korea's health authorities said it would be the first country to identify the five major variants with single PCR analysis. - Reuters
SEOUL (Xinhua): South Korea's health authorities said Friday (Dec 24) that it completed the development of a PCR diagnostic reagent, which can rapidly identify the Omicron Covid-19 variant.
The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said in a statement that the new reagent will be able to identify five major Covid-19 variants - the Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta variants as well as the Omicron variant and its "stealth" version.
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